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I remember fetching HTML from the server with AJAX and updating innerHTML before it was called AJAX. Is HTMX repackaging that or am I missing some exciting breakthrough here?

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It is like that yes but more abstract because it uses some special HTML tags to make the JS calls.

There is a big downside though: weak error handling. It just assumes that your call will get a response.

No, there're error events[1] which can be handled with a little bit of client-side scripting.

[1]: https://htmx.org/events/#htmx:timeout

It is doing the same. Just makes cleaner and easier.

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